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Independent candidates share common goals
By Michael Morales | Sep. 23, 2010I’m getting tired of this.
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Learning is undead
By Margeaux Johnson | Sep. 23, 2010In his column “Zombie attack bad for university image,” Sean Quinn states, “above all else UF is a four-year research institution, focused on educating its students to their fullest potentials.” I would argue this is exactly why alternate reality games like Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) should have a place on campus.
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HvZ is a great college memory
By Kristine Myny | Sep. 22, 2010The idea of an exaggerated tag at a respected university does seem childish, but there’s nothing wrong with that if it brings people together at UF and in schools across the country.
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HvZ safe for students
By Preston Hale | Sep. 22, 2010I’m a human, both in the literal sense Mr. Quinn defines in his column and in the Humans vs. Zombies game I participated in last week. The game provides harmless, alcohol- and drug-free entertainment to about 1,000 UF students.
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HvZ not UF’s only intense game
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Sep. 22, 2010I agree with Sean Quinn’s column regarding Humans vs. Zombies. Players are far too intense and it reflects negatively on the school. I know another game where the same applies. A bunch of students wear pads, hit each other and chase a man with a ball. Most students get into the game and some even paint themselves! This barbarity reflects horribly on this school as a learning institution.
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Former senator disappointed in campaign tactics thus far
By Matt Michel | Sep. 21, 2010During my daily ritual of reading the Alligator, I came across something that sincerely disappointed me. At first glance, the number of candidates opting to run as independents this semester surprised me.
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Unfair to discredit independent candidates
By Ford Dwyer | Sep. 21, 2010This is in response to yesterday’s letter by Justin Willems, which de-legitimized the independent Student Government candidates.
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Sex columnist's writing must be based on food; sports editor should give advice on what is newsworthy
By Luba Solonenko | Sep. 19, 2010Jared Misner, your responses on Sex and the Swamp are so cool.
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Columnist makes flawed argument
By Chad Kimes | Sep. 16, 2010What a silly argument Bryan Griffin has against the health care bill. He seems to think faceless government bureaucrats are somehow different or worse than faceless insurance company bureaucrats.
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Media avoids real issues
By Liz Zatz | Sep. 16, 2010After reading how the Alligator staff responded to the Chris Rainey story, I was thoroughly disappointed. Saying Rainey “just sent a sexy text message that said ‘Time to die bitch’ among other sweet nothings” is trivializing a serious issue.
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Letter diminished IRHA reputation
By Courtney Read | Sep. 13, 2010IRHA has come a long way these past few years. One would think it would be in the IRHA body’s nature to work together to resolve residence life issues and build community.
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Inaction similar to support of Dove
By Ben Marcus | Sep. 8, 2010As a former Gainesville resident, I’m displeased with the reaction to the Dove World Outreach Center’s planned “Burn a Quran Day.” Students need to use their education and make sure these people know they do not represent Gainesville.
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Attention only fuels fanatics’ fire
By Christopher Moody | Sep. 8, 2010Until Sept. 11, we saw terrorists as nothing but extremists who had taken their violent turn in history.
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Columnist gets facts wrong
By Jordon Kalilich | Sep. 7, 2010Bryan Griffin is a little quick to jump to the conclusion that America was founded on Judeo-Christian philosophies in his Thursday column. He assumes, as many others have before him, the God mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is the God of Judaism and Christianity.
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Dove members blasphemous
By Jason Francis | Sep. 7, 2010I have read the Dove World Outreach Center intends to burn copies of the Quran Sept. 11. This is profound ignorance, straight and simple, and it is hypocritical.
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Gainesville draws international attention for all the wrong reasons
By Idan Solon | Sep. 7, 2010For all the clear-minded, innovative scholars who study in Gainesville, the town has drawn the international attention of the Associated Press and the top commander in Afghanistan because of the grossly ignorant, misguided gestures of the Dove World Outreach Center, which plans to burn the Quran Sept. 11. Spare the idle criticisms of the Quran. The overarching consideration is millions of people across the world have an interpretation of Islam that they say influences them to live peacefully and productively.
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Pastor to taint Christianity more than Islam
By Nadia Qazi | Sep. 7, 2010Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is required reading in many schools. I wonder if the Rev. Terry Jones has ever understood its message. A famous refrain in the novel about a fireman who doesn’t put out fires, but starts them, is that you “don’t face a problem, you burn it.” It is the utter stupidity of this approach Bradbury tries to address in his novel.
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Reason better model of government than religion
By Jordan Huzarevich | Sep. 7, 2010In his Thursday column, Bryan Griffin argues, “our country’s founding is inseparable from Judeo-Christian philosophies.” What Griffin fails to do is provide even one example of what a Judeo-Christian philosophy might look like, even though there are apparently several. As it stands, “Judeo-Christian philosophies” is simply a buzz-phrase.
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Secular government better for America
By Troy Bosman | Sep. 6, 2010I have come to expect ignorant claims that America is a Christian nation from the uneducated fundamentalist, but I was very surprised to read it in Thursday’s Alligator from a UF law student.
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Constitution upholds separation of church and state; column gets founding of America wrong
By Ben Speakman | Sep. 2, 2010Where do I even begin, Bryan?
